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Here are some key points about the cyclical rise and fall of the 10,000 things ("flower") in their eternal becomings which we reflect ("moon") in our awareness (and which reflect us in theirs):
NOTE: It seems that Robert D. Wilson (Simply Haiku), who uses the phrase "activity based" a lot when decreeing ku methodology, has changed his tune to make even the phrase itself activity based. He has craftily done this by covering his bets with the addition of an " i " to the second word of his mantra. Flexibility is always to be valued for whither the wind blows. - jp
"There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon." - Matsuo Basho
That wonderful quote by Basho can easily pass by students without their realising just how succinctly profound the great man encircled existence with it. Let's peer a little closer . . .
"Nature is not mono, a physical entity. It is koto, the act of becoming; a creative force in a continuum of change. His poetry is activity (process, objective) b[i]ased." - R D Wilson
"Like our ing [gerund], koto [not the harp] has no practical use by itself. If you have to have a translation, "'the thing of' is probably the closest you can get." - Tim Sensei
mono thing, object
mono person
mono mono
aware: helpless (an), pathos, pity, sorrow, grief
"Mono no aware: Literally ‘sensitivity to things,’ Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801), carefully scrutinized the 4,500 poems in the classic text Collection of Myriad Leave made at the beginning of the Heian period and concluded that the quality unifying these poems was a sensitivity to things in nature and the transient beauty of such things. He declared this concept to be absolutely central to the Japanese national character." - Richard R. Powell
fueki slave labour, compulsory service
fueki constancy, immutable
ryuko change ('changing fashions of the time')
"Yugen, entered through the deep indigo twilights of dusk, into ma of mu; the liminal apprehension of this mystery of being which surrounds us - that is the 'soul' of mono no aware. Things come to blossom and wither to pass in their season and behind these cyclical comings and goings in the vast and sublime creativity of nature (zoka) is a constancy dressed in a boundless enigma (yugen). Some call this variable invariance fueki ryuko. It is thus do we Step into the living wind's furyu of zoka as makoto in kokoro. Ripples on an ancient pond." - jp©
Notes for a once and future pamphlet entitled:
Basho's Bullet Lists For Ku Fans Of All Ages And Stripes
jp© 09-09-12
"Thing to remember with ku is that it's not primarily descriptive poetry; rather, an evocative and vibrant dream is conjured by indirect suggestions ('allusion'). Still life movies; imbued with indigo mystery of twilight - telescoping microscopically into the boundless."
jp 29-01-13
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